The Adventures of Mabel

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...stopped. She did not talk about it any more; but all that day she had a very curious look on her face. The next morning she took a broom and went over the whole house hunting for spiders. She even went into the garret, and there she found the four brown spiders sitting on the window-sill. When they saw her coming, they slid out of the window and down the side of the house. They knew that they could never come back again. They went to the barn and tried to make a home for themselves there; but the barn-spiders, who were big and fierce, drove them out. So after that they had to live in the orchard, where they were often rained on, and got very little to eat. They could not pay the King Spider the flies they had promised him; so that one day when he saw them he caught them in his big claws and ate them all up. VIII. THE ANIMAL PARTY MABEL," said Grandma one morning, "do you know what tomorrow will be?" " No," said Mabel, who did not understand the question. " What will it be? " " Why," said Grandma, " your birthday." " No!" said Mabel. " How old shall I be to-morrow, Grandma? " " What? Don't you remember? Why, to-morrow you 'll be six years old." " Really? " cried Mabel. " Dear me! Why, Grandma, I thought that I should feel so different when I grew up; but I don't. I feel just the same as I did when I was only a little girl." Grandma smiled. "That isn't strange, Mabel," she said. " Do you know, I am more than sixty years old, and I think I feel just the same as when / was only a little girl. But we must do something for your birthday, because you have been so good and thoughtful all the year. What would you like best? " " Oh, let me see. Why, I should like best of all to have a party. You know I Ve never had a party; and now that I 'm real...